Simpson v. State

*386DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, eighteen years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence shows that the deceased, Mrs. Susie Simpson, who was the appellant’s wife, was shot and killed on the afternoon of August 16, 1954, while seated in an automobile parked in the driveway at her residence in the city of Electra.

The killing occurred around 4 o’clock, p.m., and after the shooting Mrs. Simpson was found seated behind the steering wheel of her car, apparently dead, and the appellant was lying in the garage with a bullet wound in the back of his head and with…